Sustainability via LLM Right-sizing

In three linesComparative study of 11 LLMs (GPT-4o, Gemma-3, Phi-4, etc.) across 10 common workplace tasks. GPT-4o delivers superior performance but at higher cost and environmental footprint; smaller models (Gemma-3, Phi-4) achieve strong results with better efficiency. Advocates task-aware sufficiency assessments over performance-maximizing benchmarks.

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